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256 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2020
From the point of view of temperament, she's not one to be coy in her opinions to anybody who cares to listen, as she tends to think most people have tickets on themselves and completely lack modesty. With age and the mathematical absence of future which that implies, her lack of filter makes her borderline unmanageable.
They say that I take after her in that respect. No doubt that's the reason I have no boyfriend, not just the fact I'm a handicapped single parent. I'm not what you'd call a stunner, that much is true, but nor am I that ugly: I'm of average height and well-toned because of my crutches, I've got a good head of hair that I wear in a chignon, an open face and my mother's pretty blue eyes. And when I walk, a sailor once told me that I reminded him of the lazy pitching and rolling of a yacht on a shimmering sunlit sea—which, you'd have to admit, is a pretty cool description. (p.40)